Split screen nation : moving images of the American West and South / Susan Courtney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courtney, Susan, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

History.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

West (U.S.)--In motion pictures.

West (U.S.).

Southern States--In motion pictures.

Southern States.

United States.

West United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 308 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since, it deftly analyzes not only Hollywood films and television, but also educational and corporate films, amateur films, and military Films. Split Screen Nation argues that in the face of the Cold War and the civil rights struggle an implicit, sometimes explicit, opposition between the screen West and the screen South nonetheless mediated the nation's most paradoxical narratives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Projecting Region, Imagining Nation

Teaser (Hollywood): Easy Rider Calls for a Genealogy 3

Introduction: Split Screen Nation 7

Part 2 Remapping the Nation on Multiple Screens

Teaser (16mm and Archive.org): Camera Road Trip 39

1 Screen Maps for Model Citizen-Spectators 41

2 Frontier Vistas and Plantation Sutures: Hollywood Forms of the American Paradox 81

Interstitial Teaser (Multimedia) : "John Wayne" versus "Tennessee Williams" 115

Part 3 The Leaky South

Teaser (TV): Enjoying the "Southern Decadence Blues" with Hugh Hefner 123

3 How the South Became Sexually Perverse in the Civil Rights Era 127

Part 4 The Empty west

Teaser (Media Saturation) : Robert Frank's Postcards from the Edge 187

4 Expanding Views of a Filmic Proving Ground 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Courtney, Susan, 1967- author. Split screen nation

ISBN:

9780190459963

0190459964

9780190459970

0190459972

OCLC:

959031980